Biographie

Chercheur invité in 2003, Barry Bergdoll spent a month at the INHA working on research on the relationships between natural history and architectural theory in the 19th century which resulted in a publication (“Of Crystals, Cells, and Strata: Natural History and Debates on the Form of a New Architecture in the Nineteenth Century, » Architectural History: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 50 (2007): 1-29). Bergdoll has been on the faculty of the Dept. of Art History at Columbia University since completing his doctoral dissertation on Léon Vaudoyer in 1986. From 2007 to 2014 he served as Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art..

– Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive. (edited exhibition catalogue, co-edited with Jennifer Gray).  New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2017.         

– Marcel Breuer : Building Global Institutions.  Zurich : Lars Mueller, 2019

– Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 (with Carlos Eduardo Comas and Jorge Francisco Liernur). New York: The Museum of Modern Art: 2015

– Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light (with Corinne Bélier and Marc Le Cœur). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013. French Edition. Bergdoll, Bélier, Le Cœur, Labrouste (1801-1875) architecte: La structure mise en lumière. (Paris: Nicolas Chaudun, avec la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, The Museum of Modern Art et la Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2012)

– Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011

– Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. (with Leah Dickerman) New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

– Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. (with Peter Christensen) New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

– Mies in Berlin. Edited by Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Abrams, 2001.  German edition. Bergdoll, Riley and Andres Lepik, Mies van der Rohe, Die Berliner Jahre 1907-1938. (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2001) Includes « The Nature of Mies’s Space, » by Barry Bergdoll, pp. 66-105

– European Architecture 1750-1890. (Oxford History of Art Series).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

– Mastering McKim’s Plan: Columbia’s First Century on Morningside Heights.  New York: Wallach Art Gallery and Columbia University Press, 1997.

– Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia.  New York: Rizzoli, 1994.  German edition, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Preußens Berühmtesten Architekt.  Berlin, 1994.

– Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry.  New York: Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, 1994/

– Les Vaudoyer: Une dynastie d’architectes  Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991 (Les Dossiers du Musée d’Orsay, no.45).